Tim writes: > I guess all the television footage showing the helicopter and the > grenade dropped by one of the Fatah members was Zionist propaganda. > Those Jews are really sneaky!
Apparently, I confused the events in Munich in '72 with another "rescue" operation in which civilians were obliterated by the rescue team, and their deaths were later attributed to the hostage takers. After some refreshing of my memory from the news coverage of the events, I will correct the account to read as follows. Palestinians took 11 Israeli athletes hostage and two of them were killed during the hostage taking. The Mossad, the Israeli secret service, requested to bring in a hostage rescue team into Germany, and was refused by the German government. With the head of the Mossad, Zvi Zamir, acting as an observer and adviser in Germany, a rescue was attempted by German police, which resulted in the killing of the remaining 9 athletes. I will still stand by my points about Israeli policy towards Israeli civilians held hostage, settlements, and Sharon's "The Jewish people control America" comments before the Knesset. The Munich festivities were apparently later immortalized for history in a Michael Douglas film, which now serves as peoples public recollection of the events, rather than the coverage that took place at the time. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
